1. Solomon's workers started building the temple during Ziv, the second month of the year. It had been four years since Solomon became king of Israel, and four hundred and eighty years since the people of Israel left Egypt.
10. Storage rooms just over two metres high were all around the temple, and they were attached to the temple by cedar beams.
11. The Lord told Solomon:
12-13. If you obey my commands and do what I say, I will keep the promise I made to your father David. I will live among my people Israel in this temple you are building, and I will not desert them.